Monday 6 May 2013

The unanswerables will answer now

Indian leadership is plagued by favouritism, "lobby"ism and corruption. But now we have ways to check them. We can keep track of conversations, we can take note of monetary acquisitions and trace their genealogical links with property deals. With the "media" taking keen interest in activities of the so called elected leaders, we have scams after scams. Allocation of coal blocks to paying friends is serious matter. Now one of the ministers has shown favouritism towards his bribe-taking nephew and this has been caught.The minster has not resigned yet as the opposition wants but he will have to answer questions on his acts.
At several times policemen have been caught taking bribes by cameras in mobile telephones. Police brutality has been recorded by cell-phone cameras and televised. Thus the corrupt have been caught and captured by the new mobile technology.There is hope we can use this to further correct the erring state.
Computerisation in government offices has reduced corruption greatly. Movement of files is recorded by file management systems and any stagnation can be questioned. Road transport and rail transport has been greatly improved by web applications. By making the "Aadhar cards" (which uses iris patterns and finger prints) we have issued identification cards to our people.Loans for higher studies would be given using the identity of the recipient.Fuel(for cooking) will be subsidised using this number. This connects the people to the government; and the government to the people.
The Indian state has thus evolved, solving problems while modernising using technology. A great tradition or the Indian civilisation has thus been ushered into the post-industrial era. We are trying to gain control over the uncommitted leaders using latest technology.

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